To David T. and John --- Okay I have to apologize. I didn't look carefully at the "Documentation" page at the website. Each time I went there, I saw just the first section, whose entire text is:
There are two major GnuCash documentation packages to help users: - *The Help Manual* <http://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=help> - *The Tutorial and Concepts Guide* <http://www.gnucash.org/viewdoc.phtml?doc=guide> The *Help Manual* is designed to be a quick reference of how to accomplish specific tasks and how to use the features in GnuCash. The *Concepts Guide* is designed to be an in depth guide to the concepts behind using GnuCash with a tutorial to show how to put those concepts into practice. Additionally, you can talk to someone via IRC at *irc.gnome.org <http://irc.gnome.org>* channel *#gnucash* about your question. Another resource is the English <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/> or Deutsch <http://linuxwiki.de/GnuCash> GnuCash wikis. You can also send an email to the gnucash-user <gnucash-u...@gnucash.org> mailing list if you cannot find a satisfactory answer to your question within either the *Help Manual* or the *Tutorial and Concepts Guide*. We *want* feedback from you, it is also through your comments that we know how to improve the documentation. GnuCash's documentation has been created by its community. See the Writing Documentation page <http://www.gnucash.org/develdocs.phtml> if you are interested in contributing to this effort. That seemed to wrap it all up, i thought it was done, I did not see the following sections which have other stuff. So I was completely wrong in my comments. (It is a possible small side thing, that maybe the "Documentation" page there is confusing, because it confused me, but that is off-topic here.) I am sincerely sorry for being confused and causing confusion. About the current draft webpage, at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash/sandbox, I am glad to see that "sunfish62" edited there already, fixing or improving from how I had left it. Perhaps it is good to go now. I think I should bug out now. sincerely, Don On Mon, May 29, 2017 at 10:45 PM, David T. <sunfis...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Don, > > On May 29, 2017, at 10:24 PM, doncram <donc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > About the suggested content now at http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/ > GnuCash/sandbox, one objection that I have is that it refers readers to a > Documentation page at the main gnucash.org website which provides nothing > for them (it only contains links to the Help manual and the Tutorial and > Concept Guide, and no other documentation). Specifically, the current > content includes: > > "For the latest documentation (i.e., unstable releases of the > documentation), or to get documentation for other languages or earlier > releases, see the [http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml Documentation] page > on the GnuCash.org <http://gnucash.org> website." > > It seems like a false statement, that a reader could get latest > documentation or anything else there. The content already does link to > versions of the Help manual and the Tutorial and Concept Guide. Are you > suggesting those are not the latest versions? Should the content clarify > what versions they are? > > > I agree with John’s comments about the utility of the main website > documentation page. > > Moreover, the wiki links to the Help and Guide are to the most recent > *stable* release of the documentation. As you may know, the documentation > uses the same bug management process and version control to manage the > docs. Changes that are accepted in the docs but not yet published in the > official release (the “Nightly Documentation Builds”) may describe features > that have not been implemented in the current release. This parallels the > idea of the program’s nightly builds. They are called “unstable” for a > reason, and this term is used in this project and in others to denote this. > I have modified the sentence a little to bring this out a little more, but > I do believe that it is clear what is on the web page. > > David > > > I am sort of afraid it may be impossible to come to any agreement about > any wording, because there are too many people involved (and I guess I am > now part of the problem). I do hope that I am helping by suggesting that a > clear proposal needs to be made by a complete new version at the sandbox. > The version there is deficient in my view in this one small way, at least. > --Don > > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel